Information for Clinical Teachers

Effective Fall 2018, all teacher candidates in the state of Missouri will be evaluated using the MEES Teacher Candidate Assessment Rubric by their university clinical educator and their K-12 clinical teacher. The clinical teacher and the clinical educator's summative evaluation scores will be added together, and must meet a minimum composite score of 24 during the implementation year of FS18-SP19. An online training module is available here.

The Clinical Teachers are located in the studio schools will be the mentor and coach for the teacher candidates. The Clinical Teacher should help scaffold the teacher candidate’s ability to plan lessons and to identify evidence of student learning.

The Clinical Teacher should provide routine feedback to the teacher candidates, and the following Clinical Teacher-lead questions can guide the discussions:

Prebriefing with Teacher Candidates. These questions are modeled from the IMP (Inquiry into My Practice).

With regards to your lesson, what do you plan to explore in your content today? What do you plan to explore in instructional strategies and pedagogy today?

How do you envision your lesson unfolding? What will happen first, second and third as you teach your lesson today?

What is the one thing you want your students to learn and know at the conclusion of your lesson, and how will you know and what evidence will you have?

Can you predict where students might have challenges and make errors during your lesson?

How is the instruction you are planning responsive to support the needs of ALL learners? Multilingual learners? Learners with varied abilities? Culturally diverse learners?

Debriefing with Teacher Candidates.

What worked well with your lesson? How do you know?

What were the challenges in your lesson?

Clinical Teacher should use these Look-For’s as a guide for mentoring, and discussion points:

Teacher candidate is always highly engaged in the class.

Teacher candidate knows the names of all students.

Teacher candidate interacts with students in a responsive manner as they enter the classroom.

Teacher candidate identifies needs of students and implements responsive strategies based on information about these students.

Teacher candidate is aware and responsive to behavior in the entire classroom.

Teacher candidate waits until students are listening and attentive before giving directions or providing instruction.

The Clinical Teacher will mentor and provide input to educator candidate’s performance, the Clinical Teacher is not responsible for grades or grading. The school will provide the teacher candidates with multiple experiences working with children and youth so that they have opportunity to demonstrate proficiency on all nine of the new DESE MoSPE standards.

Please go to MyCOE:SCOPE to complete an evaluation of your teacher candidate, based on the nine MoSPE Standards by the end of the semester.

For daily matters, please see your clinical educator, or contact Stephanie Koscielski, Senior Director of Clinical Experience and School Partnerships at koscielskis@umsl.edu.

The College of Education thanks you for your dedication to mentoring the future education leaders!

University of Missouri–St. Louis

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